Excessive ferocity due to caution

"What is it that is corrupting our spirits!"

Qin Bai finally realized it.

Zhao Yidao:

"Fear can distract you, and when you're distracted, you're more susceptible to external influences."

"Concentrate... and you'll be able to resist external forces to the greatest extent possible."

Upon hearing this, Qin Bai immediately became serious.

He is young and inexperienced, but he has a strong learning ability.

Zhao Yi simply tapped him, and Qin Bai immediately adjusted himself. After three to five minutes, he regained his normal memory!

It was only then that Qin Bai realized that his mental world had been stained with a thin gray film.

This is the thing that blocked his senses and blurred his memories.

"Most attempts to alter someone's memories are done through deception."

"To truly alter someone's memories at their root, one needs to be able to touch the power of 'cause and effect'."

Zhao Yi explained to Qin Bai at a leisurely pace.

Studying the Analects allowed him to learn about many areas he had never known before.

Especially regarding the spiritual world.

Both the Analects and the Free and Easy Wandering refer to the spiritual world as the sea of ​​consciousness.

There are clearly no beings in the Torture Tower who are truly capable of touching the level of cause and effect.

Those strange things were just lurking in the shadows, secretly making some small moves against them!

Thinking of this, Qin Bai became even bolder.

It's like a listless middle-aged man suddenly receiving a small blue pill, instantly feeling like he's still got it, and his whole being swells up.

I'm going to take on ten!

At that moment, Qin Bai had this thought in his mind.

He straightened his back.

The other, more cunning trial participants who remained nearby gathered around, keeping their distance from the pale-faced individuals.

Those who participated in the trials were the ones who sensed something was wrong and wisely left the group.

At this moment, their eyes had become exceptionally empty, having long lost the characteristics of living people, and they were simply mechanically following the crowd.

"Everyone, do not leave the group without permission."

"There's something watching us all the time."

The woman from the Qin family spoke, her fingers tightly gripping a blood-stained talisman with blue flames burning on it, helping her resist external mental intrusion.

After walking for about half an hour, the darkness in front of them finally dissipated, revealing a huge square.

In the square stood one execution stake after another, with many people who were not yet dead bound to them!

They struggled and wailed.

The blood flowing from the festering flesh stained the execution pillar red.

These people should have bled to death long ago, but the instruments of torture on their bodies continue to squeeze fresh blood from them...

"Such cruel methods..."

An older trial participant's voice trembled.

"These instruments of torture extract a person's soul and reason, leaving only blood..."

"This is going to completely devour them!"

Just as everyone was astonished, a hunched old man carrying a lantern emerged from the thick fog in the distance, struggling to drag his exhausted body toward them.

A long chain pierced his ankle bone and dragged him across the ground.

Beyond the chains were large iron balls, their surfaces carved with terrified human faces.

slam-la-

With each step the old man took, the chains rattled violently.

The chains had no end, nor did the iron ball with the human face.

Like bunches of grapes, they stretched into the depths of the mist...

Upon seeing the old man with the lantern, everyone trembled and retreated...

"What the hell is that...?"

Someone muttered a curse.

The old man also noticed these people, and a glint flashed in his cloudy eyes.

"sinner……"

He uttered ancient syllables in a language that no one could understand. Apart from Zhao Yi, who was able to understand what the old man was saying due to his "Confucius's Unspoken Words" supernatural ability, everyone else was completely bewildered.

Although they couldn't understand what the old man was saying, they could clearly sense the murderous intent in his eyes!

Stab it!

The old man, whose body was bound by shackles, suddenly attacked the crowd, with purplish-black lightning crackling between his fingers!

A terrifying demonic aura enveloped the entire plaza. The trial participant closest to the old man reacted quickly. Knowing the old man's extraordinary abilities, he did not use his own power to directly confront the attack, but instead chose to use the cursed item he had obtained!

The intense collision, with purple lightning flashing and roaring, concealed a terrifying power of rules!

The trial participant who fought the old man screamed as a large crack appeared in the cursed item in his hand, and he was sent flying backward, blood gushing from his mouth and nose!

The trial participant fell dozens of meters away, critically injured and on the verge of death, while the old man seized the cursed item.

This scene sent chills down the spines of all the trial participants present!

Extremely bad luck is extremely bad luck!

Even if they obtained the cursed item, they couldn't possibly confront the old man directly!

But the old man did not continue the pursuit. Instead, he examined the cursed item in his hand carefully. He seemed to remember something and muttered to himself:

"I am not... a sinner..."

His consciousness returned for only a moment before his eyes became cloudy again.

Boom!

The old man flicked his finger at the trial participant, and the ground suddenly trembled. The mysterious patterns on the solid stones glowed, and the stones opened up like flower petals. A brand new execution pillar slowly rose from below!

A sharp iron chain flew out from the execution post, piercing the critically injured and dying trial participant, binding him to the execution post amidst his miserable screams!

Crimson blood soaked the shaft of the execution pillar!

"pain!"

"Ouch! Ouch!!"

The trial participant screamed desperately, and the horrific sight made the other trial participants present shudder involuntarily!

"retreat!"

Someone shouted and turned to run away!

However, the old man didn't give him that chance at all. With a wave of his hand, dozens of sharp chains suddenly emerged from the darkness above, piercing the man's body and dragging him into the darkness above...

"Everyone!"

"Prepare to defend against the enemy!"

In the crowd, the woman from the Qin family screamed, her eyebrows furrowed, her face showing both shock and fear!

Although she was terrified, she knew that if they scattered and fled like birds and beasts, they would only face death!

The only way is for everyone to work together to resist this old man!

With a leader in place, the crowd quickly moved closer to the woman.

They took out all the cursed items they had!

Zhao Yi and Qin Bai, who were standing still, were immediately spotted by the old man.

Zhao's eyes flashed, and Zi Buyu's supernatural powers were fully unleashed:

"Can the old man hear me?"

The old man's cloudy eyes cleared slightly for a moment, but quickly became cloudy again.

Upon seeing this, Zhao Yi immediately realized that something had been corrupting the old man's spirit!

His gaze fell on the chains and the iron ball with the human face attached to the old man!

The faces on those iron balls have changed!

After Zhao Yi tried to communicate with the old man using the "Silent Mind" technique, they all looked at Zhao Yi!

On the iron ball, those faces... were filled with utter resentment!

PS: First update.